No. 612 - No. 614 - arriving mail art "ich bild mir einen Otto" from Heinz W. Lotz (Germany)

No. 612 - No. 614 - arriving mail art "ich bild mir einen Otto" from Heinz W. Lotz (Germany) - another collaged postal experiment that worked and an envelope with a collaged sticker as well as a collaged big sized postcard. Thank you very much.

No. 611 - arriving mail art "tkip" from Angela Behrendt (Germany)

No. 611 - arriving mail art "tkip" from Angela Behrendt (Germany) - a stitched Graffiti from Flensburg with some slightly modification as you can see. Thank you very much.

No. 610 - arriving mail art from Patrizia C. - tictac (Germany)

No. 610 - arriving mail art from Patrizia C. - tictac (Germany) - Patrizia has sent me a little plastic bottle inside a decorated envelope with some surprises, for example another portrait of Bismarck, a pass-on card from Heinz W. Lotz. Thank you very much.

see her blog: http://messageinabottle-tictac.blogspot.com/

No. 609 - arriving mail art from Maria Teresa Marques Maia Paulino (Portugal)

No. 609 - arriving mail art from Maria Teresa Marques Maia Paulino (Portugal) - a colourful handpainted portrait of Bismarck inside an envelope. Thank you very much.

No. 608 - arriving mail art from Tokitama (Japan)

No. 608 - arriving mail art from Tokitama (Japan) - a silhouette of Bismarck covered with japanese characters. Thank you very much

No. 607 - arriving mail art "Bismarck zeigte mir nur den warmen Rücken" from Ahlich van Ohlen (Germany)

No. 607 - arriving mail art "Bismarck zeigte mir nur den warmen Rücken" from Ahlich van Ohlen (Germany) - Ahlrich has sent an image form the Bismarck monument of Hamburg. Thank you very much.

No. 606 - arriving mail art "Otto's heimlicher Bruder" from Angela Behrendt (Germany)

No. 606 - arriving mail art "Otto's heimlicher Bruder" from Angela Behrendt (Germany) - one more postal experiment with Otto's brother. Thank you very much.

No. 605 - arriving mail art "Hilfe wer kann Otto eine Pickelmütze stricken?" from Heinz W. Lotz (Germany)

No. 605 - arriving mail art "Hilfe wer kann Otto eine Pickelmütze stricken?" from Heinz W. Lotz (Germany) - another collage from Heinz in which he asked who can knit a Pickel cap for Otto. Thank you very much.

No. 604 - arriving mail art from Heinz W. Lotz (Germany)

No. 604 - arriving mail art from Heinz W. Lotz (Germany) - Heinz has sent me a historical Passport with Bismarck relevant collages inside. Thank you very much.

No. 603 - arriving mail art from Heinz W. Lotz (Germany)

No. 603 - arriving mail art from Heinz W. Lotz (Germany) - Heinz has sent me a little garbage can which looks like the real german one and normally made by a manufacuturer called Otto. Inside he put lots of little collages of heads and fishes. Thank you very much for this garbage.

No. 602 - arriving mail art "Ganz Paris träumt von Otto" from Heinz W. Lotz (Germany)

No. 602 - arriving mail art "Ganz Paris träumt von Otto" from Heinz W. Lotz (Germany) - again a postal experiment which works fine without using a valid postage stamp. This time a Paris enchanced Otto on top of the Eiffel Tower. Thank you very much.

No. 601 - arriving mail art "Sehr komisch ...? from Heinz W. Lotz (Germany)

No. 601 - arriving mail art "Sehr komisch ...? from Heinz W. Lotz (Germany) - Heinz sent a collage with was inspired by a mysterious case which happpened several years ago (a suizid or murder ?) of a german politician called Uwe Barschel. Thank you very much.

No. 600 - arriving mail art from Maria da Glória Jesus de Oliveira (Brazil)

No. 600 - arriving mail art from Maria da Glória Jesus de Oliveira (Brazil) - what a fast mail art coming so far away within three days. Maria has made collage with a helmet. Thank you very much.

... outgoing mail art ...

No. 598 & No. 599 - arriving mail art from Heinz W. Lotz (Germany)

No. 598 & No. 599 - arriving mail art from Heinz W. Lotz (Germany) - two more sending by Heinz. The first one is obviously a paper bag he found in Thailand, it shows two Thai girls with Bismarck. The other one is a condolence letter from Emperor Wilhelm II. to Bismarck 's wife. Heinz used an elder letter from 1953 and did some slightly modifications to it. Thank you very much.

No. 597 - arriving mail art from Patrizia C. - tictac (Germany)

No. 597 - arriving mail art from Patrizia C. - tictac (Germany) - a decorated envelope with several artistamps with Bismarck wearing different helmets. Inside an artistamp sheet with more variations and a bigger sized artcard. Thank you very much.
see her new blog: http://messageinabottle-tictac.blogspot.com/ she has a mail art call on the theme message in a bottle.

No. 596 - arriving mail art "denk ich an Deutschland in der Nacht..." from Anonymous (Germany)

No. 596 - arriving mail art "denk ich an Deutschland in der Nacht..." from Anonymous (Germany) - the sender used the Otto Comic from Servane Morel for his/her collage. Thank you very much.

No. 595 - arriving mail art from Gunter Schwind - arttower (Germany)

No. 595 - arriving mail art from Gunter Schwind - arttower (Germany) - as far as Gunter used a little portrait of Bismarck inside this tiny little collaged artistbooklet I will post it her.

Thank you very much.

see his blog: http://arttowersmailart.blogspot.com/

No. 594 - arriving mail art "circulaire 132, No. 54" from R. F. Côté (Canada)

No. 594 - arriving mail art "circulaire 132, No. 54" from R. F. Côté (Canada) - inside this zine Rejean printed my article about the mail art project and put the modified artcard by Servane Morel too. Thank you very much.

see his blog: http://circulaire132.blogspot.com/

No. 592 & No. 593 - arriving mail art from Heinz W. Lotz (Germany)

No. 592 & No. 593 - arriving mail art from Heinz W. Lotz (Germany) - two more sending from Heinz, one again as a postal experiment the other one is a collage w´rapper of a chocolate. Thank you very much.

... first steps in finding a design for a Mail Art poster ...

the first two ideas in progress, the compartments inside the silhouette will be filled with further fragments of mail art - here just few collages. What do think of my first ideas - let me know in a comment.

I will bring these two ideas tomorrow to the director of the Bismarck Museum, to find out whether he will like it or not.